The Cue Player, part of every Primcast video stream
The live streaming player your viewers never have to think about
Paste it into your website and it gets out of the way: the picture starts, the quality fits the connection, the sound is in their language, and it plays the same on a phone in a train as on a laptop at home.
What a viewer notices
Four moments where most players lose people, handled
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Pressing play
Choose WebRTC and the picture arrives in under a second after it was filmed. When a network will not allow it, the player quietly switches to regular HLS instead of showing an error.
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A weak connection
With several renditions transcoded, the player steps down to a lighter one before the picture freezes and back up when the line recovers. Viewers can still pick a fixed quality from the menu.
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Another language
Send English and Spanish commentary as two audio tracks and a language menu appears. A link can open the player straight in the viewer's language.
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A server having a bad minute
Through our video CDN the player starts from the CDN and, if that fails, goes to the origin server by itself, so a single fault does not end the broadcast for anyone.
Where it plays
Every modern browser, including the awkward cases
Chrome, Edge and Firefox play through hls.js. Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac uses Apple's built-in HLS. The player chooses for itself, so you embed one thing.
- Page builders and sandboxed embedsMany site builders lock an embed into a sandbox where ordinary web players go black on Apple devices. This player notices and plays there anyway.
- Phones in silent modeAutoplay starts muted, as mobile browsers require, and the viewer taps for sound.
- Big screensFullscreen and picture-in-picture are permitted by the embed code, so viewers can keep watching while they browse.
- Your own player or appThe stream's HLS and DASH addresses are standard ones, so Video.js, Shaka or an app's own video player can play them if you would rather build your own.
When the content is valuable
Keep a paid event inside your own website
FairPlay and Widevine DRM
Turn DRM on for a stream and the video travels encrypted all the way to the viewer; only a browser holding a license can show it. FairPlay serves Safari on Mac, iPhone and iPad, Widevine serves Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Android, from one encrypted copy.
Both run on agreements in your name: Apple issues FairPlay credentials to content owners, Google does the same for Widevine, and you add each one in your control panel.
- Only your websitesThe stream refuses to play when the embed is copied to someone else's page.
- Only the countries you sell toA rights deal for one region stays in that region.
- Only the links you signYour site hands each viewer a link that expires; the formats Wowza and Flussonic sites already use are accepted.
- Only the viewers who paidThe built-in paywall sells tickets, passes and subscriptions, charged to your own Stripe account. Primcast keeps no cut.
Getting it on your page
Three steps, and the second one is copying
Send your stream
Point OBS, vMix, a hardware encoder or a phone app at your Primcast stream over RTMP, SRT or WebRTC.
Copy the embed code
Your control panel shows a ready iframe for the stream, already allowing fullscreen and picture-in-picture.
Paste it where the video goes
WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or plain HTML: anywhere an iframe is accepted, the player works.
Asked often
About the player
Does the player cost extra?
No. It comes with the stream: a Primcast video plan or Cue on your own server both serve it, and there is nothing to license separately.
Will it show ads or another company's logo?
No. The player shows your stream and its own controls, nothing else.
How close to live can it play?
Regular HLS suits most broadcasts. Low-latency HLS was measured at about six seconds behind live. WebRTC plays in under a second, for when the audience talks back.
Can I protect a pay-per-view event with DRM?
Yes. Switch on FairPlay, Widevine or both for that stream, then sell the tickets with the player's own paywall or keep your ticketing site and its signed links. A DRM stream plays over standard HLS and DASH; WebRTC and low-latency HLS stay off for it.
Does it work in a mobile app?
An app can show the same embed in a web view, or play the stream's HLS address in its native player, which is what most apps do.
Can viewers choose the audio language?
Yes, whenever your stream carries more than one audio track. They pick from a menu in the corner of the picture.
Ready to put your stream in front of people?
Pick a hosted video plan and the player is waiting in your panel, or run Cue on a server of your own and serve it yourself.